I'm glad you are feeling better sj and it is great ltc loves school.

I'm on day 3 of a migraine though today is MUCH more tolerable than the last three days.

My current foster dog is a senior beagle named Penelope. She is a total sweetheart. Quiet, I haven't heard her bark once. She loves to snuggle, though in return she demands to be pet. But she is also happy sleeping elsewhere. She hasn't tried to dart out the front door, she knows how to sit but doesn't really respond when I call her name.

I'm enjoying having her, but she has taught me I don't want a dog with such short legs. She has to work to jump onto the couch and I can see that stairs will be an issue for her one day. But she is a total love. I hope she finds a forever home next weekend.

job~ma to Tim.

health ~ma to Laura's step dad and storm~ma to your family.

Glad you are feeling better sj and that ltc loves school.

I need to remind myself not to listen to certain songs while driving to therapy.

Also Mom wants to a joint therapy session . At least one so she can talk about.. I don't know what..she won't tell me. But I did have my therapist email her and she emailed back and I guess she's worried about the future and how I'll take care of myself and stuff like that. Things I know I need to worry about but I can't because I just get overwhelmed and then hide so the best I can think about right now is next year. I guess we will talk about how, yes, my emotional development and social development is sort of trapped at late adolescence/early adulthood but it's not uncommon for women with Asperger's/autism and I'm working on it.

and also my hormones are all fluxing because I have PMS. so now I'm all emotional like a man this is annoying.

yes, my emotional development and social development is sort of trapped at late adolescence/early adulthood but it's not uncommon for women with Asperger's/autism

I get this. I cannot overstate how much energy I put toward passing as whatever age I am. It's exhausting. And my attempts at passing fail so hard, so often.

I struggle with feeling my age lately so bad. Especially around M. I don't want him to think I'm.. I don't know..weird. But the being broke/playing video games reminds me a lot of when I was in my 20s so I feel it much stronger.

Faking things is so tiring... being my age and being typical. I'm learning when I don't have to and when I can just be myself (not just at home but out as well)

I get this. I cannot overstate how much energy I put toward passing as whatever age I am. It's exhausting. And my attempts at passing fail so hard, so often.

Once again, Buffistas mention something that I had no idea was a thing, and I get to have a moment of, "Holy Crap, me too, it's not just me, yay!" You guys make me feel so much less crazy/weird.

Arrrrggggg. My latest school paper got kicked back by the teacher because the plagiarism algorithm says over 30% of my paper is questionable. I looked at the report and 3 of the items were for direct quotes that were cited correctly, another 3 were from my reference page - sorry I used the same references some other folks may have used. But the majority are "copied from papers submitted by others to CSU-Global". But looking at the items marked, almost my whole cover page is highlighted - the cover page contains very specific information and should be the same for everyone in the class other than our name. Also common words/phrases such as project management (PM) and project management office (PMO) were highlighted. There were a couple of phrases I could tweak to structure the sentence differently with different words, but that only brought my score down to 29%.

I resubmitted and wrote my professor a note citing each of the items on the report and what I was able to change without redoing my research and cutting out direct quotes. So far he has responded with "thank you for your diligence" but I don't have an updated grade yet.

I get that checking for plagiarism is important, but direct quotes and citations on the reference page shouldn't count. And phrases that are part of the major are GOING to be used by all of us.

I'm having an exceptionally high level of distress. If you go to the psych ER, do they admit you? Because I'm not willing to be admitted.

Steph, involuntary admission is a very high bar to clear - very generally, it will only happen if they believe you are going to hurt yourself or someone else - and it usually takes a history of trying to do one or more of those. Even then, to do so without filing an affidavit is really, really rare.

If you think you need help, I want you to get it.

I'm afraid it would create more problems than solutions.